Security News > 2021 > February > Over 8 million COVID-19 test results leaked online

Millions of COVID-19 test reports were found to be publicly accessible due to flawed online system implementation.

The leak, comprising over 8 million COVID-19 test results, has been attributed to the Health and Welfare Department of West Bengal, India.

Researcher spots millions of COVID test results leaking online.

"I have found an issue in an Indian Government site which is resulting in the leakage of test reports of EVERYONE who took a COVID-19 test in a particular state."

This is not the first time COVID-19 test results have been spotted leaking online at such a scale.

Previously, multiple independent labs were leaking patient test results due to a flawed QR code implementation that could let threat actors enumerate the test result URLs.

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